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You can’t study to be an entrepreneur. Sometimes, you just have to jump.

Barbara Corcoran

My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.
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Amazing Kids Mother Woman
If you get labeled a winner, people come along for the ride. Might as well enjoy it and they should too.
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might People Winner
I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you’re quoted in the ‘Wall Street Journal,’ the ‘New York Times,’ constantly as the expert in the business people assume you’re a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image.
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Country Journal Running Street Wall
Harebrained schemes often lead to great discoveries.
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Discovery Schemes
Most great entrepreneurs I know are nothing like the other kids. They’re almost like tangent lines – those lines that seem to go nowhere. Nothing connects them, until they get out in the real world. Then they connect just fine.
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Kids Motivational Real
Instead of assuming everything you’re being told is the truth, ask plenty of questions.
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Asks Assuming Plenty
People imitate their leader. Lead by example.
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Example Leader People
A good organization is like a box of crayons. You need different colors of the spectrum, but all the crayons should fit in the box.
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Color Motivational Organization
Innovation and creativity are the juiciest parts of running a business.
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Creativity Innovation Running
In business, you’re the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
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Entrepreneur Motivational Waiting
When you have chemistry with a potential hire, they will most likely become a great employee.
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Chemistry Employee Great
If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.
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Differences Record
All the best things that happened to me happened after I was rejected. I knew the power of getting past no.
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All Best Past Rejected
If someone doesn’t fit in your company, you have an obligation to get rid of them, because you’re holding them back from excelling elsewhere.
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Company Fit Obligation
In New York City, the meek don’t inherit the earth. The big mouth does.
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City Country Earth Mouth
When you feel stuck and can’t seem to move ahead, always remember that you don’t have to get it right, you just have to get it going!
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Moving Remember Stuck

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